Allen County Major Employers

We encourage anyone who will be using the Major Employer Lists in publications or presentations to please contact CRI at 260-481-0286 to ensure the most up-to-date information is used. 

If CRI cannot obtain a reliable estimate of FTE within the past 5 years, either by company response or through a reliable news source, CRI does not include that employer in the list.

Go Directly to the List:

• The Top 100 Major Employers
• Major Employers Listed Alphabetically
• Major Employers Listed by NAICS Classification

Notes:
All lists are in Excel spreadsheets.
If this program is not available to you, contact CRI at 260 481-0286 or e-mail to request a different format.

• The Major Employers list is an expanded version of the "Top 100 Employers" and includes additional employers who have a major impact in Allen County. There are approximately 140 employers in the "Major Employer" list. This is available both alphabetically and by NAICS.
• Rankings are determined by total number of FTE -- full time equivalents (see methodology). In order to compare "apples to apples", CRI ranks by FTE.
• Employment data is for Allen County only.
• Retailers and restaurants are excluded from the list.

Methodology

If a person works full-time for the employer, this is 1.0 FTE. Some areas, such as schools and universities, may only employ a person for 10 months, but this meets the generally accepted definition of a full-time person and is counted as 1.0 FTE. Other employers may consider their employees as full-time if they work 35 hours per week, while others expect 40 hours. Generally, a position of 1,820-2,080 hours per year is considered one FTE.

Suggestions for calculating the number of part-time FTE: if there are many part-time positions, you may prefer to count or estimate all the hours worked in one year, and divide by 2080. For example, if the total number of hours paid in a year to part-time employees equaled 20,000, this is equivalent to 9.6 FTE (20,000/2080).

For seasonal employees, CRI had traditionally asked that these be converted to FTE and added to full-time employment. For example, 10 persons working full-time the 3 summer months or 3 months during the Christmas Season would be the equivalent of 2.5 FTE (10 x 3/12). But recognizing that seasonal employment can be quite varied among employers, it may be easier to add the total hours worked and divide by 2080 (in this case, that would be (10 persons x 40 hours per week x 13 weeks)divided by 2080, or 5200/2080 = 2.5 FTE.

CRI would be happy to assist in any calculations of FTE.

If CRI cannot obtain a reliable estimate of FTE within the past 5 years, either by Company response or through a reliable news source, CRI does not include that employer in the list.

Companies: Do you need to provide updated information?

Please assist CRI in keeping its Major Employers list current by identifying your company's number of employees at your Allen County locations.

Take the 8-question major employer survey or send CRI an e-mail. Note: The survey will open in a new window, so you may want to disable your pop-up blocker or allow pop-ups for this site.

Please read our methodology to correctly identify FTE.

CRI does not supply names of company officers.